Reply #199: There was a time in the 90s when things got really better for New Haven.

[CTyankee]

The city looked so much better with all the gentrification. The Yale Co-Op fell to a Barnes & Noble. The city acquired some really fine restaurants. People were doing well. DeStefano "sold" a street to Yale (don't know exactly how you can do this...sounds like something the de Medicis might have done to the Florentine Republic in the quattrocento or maybe the other way around). The arts were flourishing.

The Bush years finally erased a lot of that and the panic of fall 07 was a real pisser for the cities in CT. It's been hellish every since, altho I love New Haven, live in the city (Westville) and tutor with Literacy Volunteers. My husband and I are retired but he used to take the bus to work and back every day for many years. After 6 pm it's a problem I agree...